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Frauen am Rande des Nervenzusammenbruchs

Originaltitel: Mujeres al borde de un ataque de "nervios"
  • 1988
  • 12
  • 1 Std. 28 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
7,5/10
49.050
IHRE BEWERTUNG
María Barranco, Carmen Maura, Rossy de Palma, and Julieta Serrano in Frauen am Rande des Nervenzusammenbruchs (1988)
Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown: Life Is Not A Bed Of Roses
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Eine Fernsehschauspielerin trifft auf eine Vielzahl von exzentrischen Charakteren, nachdem sie sich auf eine Reise begeben hat, um herauszufinden, warum ihre Geliebte sie plötzlich verlassen... Alles lesenEine Fernsehschauspielerin trifft auf eine Vielzahl von exzentrischen Charakteren, nachdem sie sich auf eine Reise begeben hat, um herauszufinden, warum ihre Geliebte sie plötzlich verlassen hat.Eine Fernsehschauspielerin trifft auf eine Vielzahl von exzentrischen Charakteren, nachdem sie sich auf eine Reise begeben hat, um herauszufinden, warum ihre Geliebte sie plötzlich verlassen hat.

  • Regie
    • Pedro Almodóvar
  • Drehbuch
    • Pedro Almodóvar
    • Jean Cocteau
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Carmen Maura
    • Antonio Banderas
    • Julieta Serrano
  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
  • IMDb-BEWERTUNG
    7,5/10
    49.050
    IHRE BEWERTUNG
    • Regie
      • Pedro Almodóvar
    • Drehbuch
      • Pedro Almodóvar
      • Jean Cocteau
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Carmen Maura
      • Antonio Banderas
      • Julieta Serrano
    • 90Benutzerrezensionen
    • 70Kritische Rezensionen
    • 85Metascore
  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
    • Für 1 Oscar nominiert
      • 22 Gewinne & 24 Nominierungen insgesamt

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    Carmen Maura
    Carmen Maura
    • Pepa
    Antonio Banderas
    Antonio Banderas
    • Carlos
    Julieta Serrano
    Julieta Serrano
    • Lucía
    Rossy de Palma
    Rossy de Palma
    • Marisa
    María Barranco
    María Barranco
    • Candela
    Kiti Mánver
    Kiti Mánver
    • Paulina Morales
    • (as Kiti Manver)
    Guillermo Montesinos
    Guillermo Montesinos
    • Taxista
    Chus Lampreave
    Chus Lampreave
    • Portera Testiga de Jehová
    Eduardo Calvo
    Eduardo Calvo
    • Padre de Lucía
    • (as Yayo Calvo)
    Loles León
    Loles León
    • Secretaria
    Ángel de Andrés López
    Ángel de Andrés López
    • Policía I
    • (as Angel de Andrés-López)
    Fernando Guillén
    Fernando Guillén
    • Iván
    Juan Lombardero
    • Germán
    José Antonio Navarro
    • Policía II
    Ana Leza
    • Ana
    Ambite
    • Ambite
    Mary González
    • Madre Lucía
    Lupe Barrado
    • Secretaria Paulina
    • Regie
      • Pedro Almodóvar
    • Drehbuch
      • Pedro Almodóvar
      • Jean Cocteau
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    tvce

    Outstanding in Spanish, however...

    I have seen several Almodovar films and this is far and away my favorite. The acting is marvelous in the original Spanish, especially Maria Barranco as Candela, and a young Antonio Banderas in his pre-US fame days. However, if you obtain the DVD version of this movie, resist the temptation to use the English-dubbed soundtrack. Sadly, the English version is just not funny. The readings are flat and uninspired, and the translation is not always accurate; too literal in some cases, just missing the point in others. It appears that the English dialog was written more for a close match with the lip movements than for precise translation. Instead, use the Castilian Spanish audio track and savor the beautiful performances. If you don't understand the language, read the English subtitles, which are more appropriately translated, and still enjoy the original.
    sophiescagell

    Film genius!

    This is in my opinion the greatest Almodovar film ever! Its funny and serious, but mainly farscical, but its brilliant. Carmen Maura steals the show as a woman close to the edge, but her performance is fully backed up by all the rest of the cast. Antonio Banderas performance is excellent as a geeky young man, with his girlfriend and mother also shining. It combines all the elements of American comedy of the sixties but brings it back at us with a touch of latin spirit. This film in my opinion is a gem, for anyone who wants to laugh!
    9Tweekums

    Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

    This Spanish comedy follows actress Pepa whose boyfriend, Iván, has just left her. What follows is a comedy of coincidences and mishaps. Pepa accidentally sets fire to her bed shortly before her friend Candela calls, she is worried because she has just learnt that her boyfriend is a terrorist and fears she will be arrested for harbouring him. Then Carlos, Iván's son, and his fiancée turn up to look at the flat, which Pepa is planning to rent out; Carlos had no idea of Pepa's connection to his father till he sees a picture in the flat. Things only escalate as Carlos tries to help Candela with her problem in a way that only serves to get the police to the flat; but not before Carlos's mother, who was recently released from a psychiatric hospital turns up.

    If you want a realistic story this won't be for you; just about everything that happens relies on unlikely coincidences. For me this unlikeliness only served to make it funnier. The characters themselves are only slightly exaggerated; one feels that in more normal situations they would be ordinary people. There are plenty of laughs from start to finish; highlights include gazpacho soup that has been laced with sleeping pills, a visit to a lawyer who may be able to help Candela, and a rather different taxi driver. Writer/director Pedro Almodóvar does a fine job successfully takes the comedy to a high level without tipping into silliness. He is aided by a fine cast that includes Carmen Maura, as Pepa; María Barranco as Candela and a young, pre-Hollywood, Antonio Banderas as Carlos. Overall I'd certainly recommend this to fans of farcical comedy; it is very funny.

    These comments are based on watching the film in Spanish with English subtitles.
    7rbowles-2

    Tight as a drum

    What I like most about this movie is the economy of it's writing and directing. There really isn't a wasted moment, nothing extraneous and that is what keeps the pace crackling and makes the movie watchable in every moment. It also has one of the GREAT ensembles ever. Carmen Maura as Pepa keeps herself on that verge for an hour and a half without ever really falling off the edge, it is a beautifully modulated performance. Maria Barranco as Candela is another performance that teeters on the edge of falling off into an emotional rubble but somehow manages to keep it together. Those two are delightful in every moment they are on screen. We can't forget Julieta Serrano as Lucia, the one truly crazy, post-breakdown woman in the story who brings a quality of self-awareness to her role that makes it a bit heartbreaking. She knows she is nuts and can't do a damn thing about it. And then there is VERY strangely attractive Rossy de Palma as Marisa, a virgin who needs nothing so much as she just needs to get laid to mellow her out. These women are all superlative, but Guillermo Montesinos as the Taxi Driver nearly steals the movie out from everyone and gives certainly the best male performance in the film. You have to see him to believe him.
    fdpedro

    "Ask her who the hell is Ivan!" "Who the hell is Ivan?"

    There are some movies that, no matter how good the translation, are just impossible for a particular audience to get. This is why I think most of the American audience wasn't be able to get into WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN. After directing the rather weak and disappointing drama/thriller LAW OF DESIRE, Spanish director Pedro Almodovar returned to screens in his full glory with this wonderful Academy Award-nominated screwball comedy.

    Pepa (Almodovar regular Carmen Maura) works as an actress for TV commercials and dubbing of foreign films. Her lover Ivan (Fernando Guillen), who shares the same job, decides to leave her one day for unknown reasons, leading Pepa to assume he left with his wife Lucia (Julieta Serrano), who was recently released from the mental hospital. But after a while, Pepa realizes Lucia thinks the exact opposite, and that Ivan left for an unknown third woman. While on her quest to find this third woman, Pepa has to deal with her nervous friend Candela (Maria Barranco) who recently found out her boyfriend is a wanted terrorist and Carlos, (Antonio Banderas) Ivan's son whose annoying fiancé ends up getting accidentally knocked off by a rather lethal gazpacho.

    Going any further with this film's plot would be unfair since most of the humor is delivered from it's many twists and turns. Almodovar was able to write a script so sharp with so many colorful characters and situations that the entire thing goes down with pure laughter. But is everyone laughing?

    That brings me to the answer as to why many people didn't find this funny at all. If you don't speak or understand Spanish, (or some other language that comes from Latin) you won't be able to get this film as much as others. There is a reason why so many American comedians are never able to make it overseas: Humor is simply not international. The rumored but thankfully never completed American remake of this would have never worked. The performances for example: To people who understand the language, you can tell when the characters are being ironic, sarcastic, goofy, or serious. I don't think you can do that very well when English is your first language. So the users that have been complaining about "flat" performances might be already explained.

    Almodovar has been accused of being a feminist, and this movie might be the main reason. I don't quite agree with that because WOMEN doesn't really leave strong message. If it does, I know few people who would actually care for it because this movie is hilarious. Every single character in these 90 minutes of absurdity gets well-balanced and get enough amount of time to shine: The MAMBO TAXI driver for example, turns out to be one of the funniest elements. The scenes all by themselves are already OK, but the frequency that they happen make them somehow even funnier. And the first-rate acting gets a big plus in my book. Everyone here is perfect (including a very scary way Almodovar coaches a good performance out of Antonio Banderas) with the true stand-out being Carmen Maura as over-the-top neurotic Pepa. It is a shame this was Maura's last collaboration with Almodovar.

    But WOMAN's style is also not to be ignored: Most of the movie is set inside Pepa's apartment, which is put to good use. It is an amazing then-futuristic-looking retro set that with it's sitcom-like camp and artificial looking painted backgrounds becomes almost a character itself. Cinematographer Jose Luis Alcaine's camera is always up to interesting moves: There is the tracking shot of Pepa's feet as she walks in circles waiting for her call, or the reflection take from the answering machine. The work with colors is equally stunning, with the main colors being yellow and blue, and Pepa's red dress "over coloring" the environments around her for most of the time. You could freeze frame almost every interior shot of WOMEN... and stare at it for a while.

    I can't really recommend this movie enough, as much as hard it is to review comedies. Reviewing a comedy is a tough call since it depends on weather you found the material funny or not. I have seen this over ten times and I always laugh at certain moments which I don't want to spoil. Let's just say the Jehovah's testimony and the TV commercial are the parts that always get me. I certainly did enjoy WOMEN... more than any other comedy I have ever seen.

    (5/5)

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      Pedro Almodóvar and Carmen Maura's personal relationship was seriously damaged during the shooting, which Maura even defined as a "living hell". It took 18 years for them to work again, on Volver - Zurückkehren (2006).
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      Candela, while giving Pepa's rabbits water, comments to Carlos about how the rabbits love the turnips they're eating (in the English and French subtitles as well as in the original Spanish audio), but the only vegetables in the cage are leeks, and the rabbits aren't eating them.
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      Pepa: Hello. I'm the mother of the notorious Crossroads Killer. When my son comes home after one of his famous crimes, his clothes are just filthy.

      [Pepa holds up a bloody shirt. The police arrive]

      Policía I: Where are the clothes your son wore...

      Policía II: At the time of the murder?

      [Pepa takes a clean shirt out of the dryer]

      Pepa: Right here. Sparkling clean.

      Policía I: No trace of blood.

      Policía II: Or guts.

      Policía I: Unbelievable!

      [Pepa holds up a box of detergent]

      Pepa: Ecce Homo. It's unbelievable.

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    • Erscheinungsdatum
      • 23. Februar 1989 (Westdeutschland)
    • Herkunftsland
      • Spanien
    • Sprache
      • Spanisch
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    • Drehorte
      • Estudios Barajas - C/ de Campezo, 3, Madrid, Spanien(Studio)
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      • Laurenfilm
      • El Deseo
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      • 700.000 $ (geschätzt)
    • Bruttoertrag in den USA und Kanada
      • 7.251.740 $
    • Eröffnungswochenende in den USA und in Kanada
      • 13.399 $
      • 13. Aug. 2006
    • Weltweiter Bruttoertrag
      • 7.305.816 $
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